Disorder-induced first-order transition in superconducting films
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 46 (10), 6615-6617
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.46.6615
Abstract
Strong disorder in the two-dimensional XY model is shown to favor the first-order phase transition with nonuniversal properties due to reduction of the effective temperature for short-scale fluctuations. The results seem to be of relevance for high- superconducting films.
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